a loving tribute to THE LAZY MYSPACE LEDE

Ledes only, list more as you come across them:

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The wallpaper for Brooklyn-based "futuristic production team" (their words) Games' MySpace features neon-lit snowmobiles in a dark, wintry environment. When listening to the music of Daniel Lopatin (who also works as drone overload Oneohtrix Point Never) and Joel Ford (a member of soft-rock outfit Tigercity), the visual association makes sense.

--Pitchfork, August 24, 2010

Never put stock in MySpace genre tags, but the page for Sweden's Studio says "Experimental/Afro-beat/Pop" and that's a decent start.

--Pitchfork, February 15, 2007

Strategy's MySpace page bills itself as "the MySpace page for everything Strategy-related," but it doesn't list a genre.

--Pitchfork, August 24, 2007

On its MySpace page, Tape Deck Mountain has a brief descriptor of its sound: “mid-fi.” We’re not going to make a whole thing out of that, but it’s fitting.

--The Fader, Sep 3, 2009

ghettotech/comedy/regional mexican was always a great ironic myspace genre tag

ts: the lazy myspace lede versus the "if you enter {BAND NAME} into the popular internet search engine google you get seventy bajillion results" graf.

Los Campesinos! aren't the first act to make a name for themselves on MySpace. They may, however, be one of the first guitar groups in the UK who really sound like products of Web 2.0.

-- Pitchfork, July 2007

"Find something in the trash... plug it in": So reads the message next to the photo at the top of Holy Fuck's MySpace, and it's a good starting point for describing their sound.

-- Pitchfork, November 2007

is this the music writer equivalent of "webster's dictionary defines [whatever] as..."

Demi-related:

Bad myspace promo pieces for bands/singers

wth is a LEDE